06/08/2013
OSUN-NASME Press Release 2013-07-30
Preamble: Nigeria Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME) is a National Business Membership Organisation of Small and Medium Enterprises in Nigeria and a member of World Assembly of Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) recognised by the United Nations.
At the end of monthly meeting of the State of Osun Chapter of the Association the Association hereby appraised the Administration of the State under the purposeful and proactive leadership of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola and noted:
1. Security. The Administration has put in place Security network that makes the State a very safe environment to work and do business.
2. Infrastructure: The State is witnessing unprecedented infrastructural re-engineering to meet the demand of the present and future economic realities.
i. Inter and Intra Township Roads are reconstructed while those roads forgotten for past decades are receiving attention.
ii. Railways is today the biggest means of human and material movement all over the World, no effort put in its development anywhere in the world can be considered a misplaced attention, though this fall within the purview of the Federal Government of Nigeria, the effort of the State Government is highly appreciated.
iii. Construction of MKO Abiola Cargo Airport is a Project which only those with inner vision and divine inspiration can conceive and realised.
iv. Water Provision for domestic and industrial needs are receiving unprecedented attention
v. Intra Township water ways, gullets and drainages are reconstructed to meet present and future natural callings.
3. Market Development : Construction of various Markets of International standard across the State is a direct intervention needed to attract capital inflow.
4. Agricultural Development: The Sector has witnessed direct intervention aimed at putting the State on a leading food producer scale. Market oriented farming is a self sustaining strategy.
5. Education: Opon Imon and other positive educational revolutionary steps are investments in the modern techno- human development
6. Massive Youth Positive and Sustainable engagement accountable for the unprecedented peaceful society.
7. Establishment of Osun Private Equity Investment Fund (O-PEF), a self-sustainable support strategy to meet the needs and aspirations of Small and Medium Enterprises which will attend to problems of Succession, Marketing and Financial and Technological assistance is welcome.
8. We finally appeal to our teeming members affected by the on-going Constructions in the State to bear with the Government. The blame is not for a Doctor that offers to operate a Child to save his life but the Doctor that supervised wrong drug administration jeopardising the life of the Child in the first instance. As the cost of the correction on the part of the Government and the society is now higher than twenty-two years ago so also delay till another time will also be higher than now.
Conclusion : Considering the various self-sustainable development Strategies being put in place by the present Administration, the Entire Members of the Association therefore endorse Our Grand Patron, (Investiture pending at the instance of the Governor) Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola for second term and enjoin all people of Osun to vote en masse to ensure that the good jobs initiated are completed.
God Bless Nigeria
God Bless State of Osun
God Bless NASME.
